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A classic telling of a classic tale
Francis Ford Coppola breathed new life in to the classic vampire story by Bram Stoker, keeping faith with much of the original novel while adding his own touches that made it an artistic wonder.

The best parts of the movie are those that remain true to the book: Jonathan Harker's travel to the castle and fateful meeting with the Count; Harker's confrontation with Dracula's three vampire lovers; the newly arisen Lucy Westenra confrontation as a vampire with her loved ones in the cemetery; and the exciting race with the sun and the gypsies taking the coffin-bound Dracula to his castle.

The script follows Dracula's strengths and vulnerabilities faithfully. The Dracula of this movie walks in the daylight -- just as in the novel.

Even when the movie departs from the original and the plot lags with the romance of Dracula and Mina, Coppola creates breathtaking images with their own potent spell that held me enchanted.

Overall the performances are well done with one or two notable exceptions. Sadie Frost, however, steals the movie in the role of Lucy Westenra.

The movie, in my opinion, would have been better with more emphasis on horror. Dracula should be more scary than sympathetic.

Still, this is one of my favorite vampire movies ever and well worth repeated viewings.

Oh Yeah!!
Dracula is probably one of the greatest movies ever made. It has some of the greatest actors ever like Anthony Hopkins or Keanu Reaves. This movie focuses on Dracula's search for his beloved Elizabeta. This movie is not one minute boring, but exciting and suspenful till the end. You should see it.

still entertaining
ugh, as everyone said what da hell does this have to do with Bram Stroker?
Anyway, I thought it was pretty entertaining. Gary Oldman was awesome.
I just didn't see Winona rider as Mina at all, kinda ruined my experience because of that (not to say that I don't like her in other movies, I just don't imagine her as mina) Mina was suppised to be a strong woman who is extremly supportive of her husband whose life she nurses back for certain death. In the movie not only she is a weakling, she is actually in love with Dracula? The use of Absinthe and the sexuality really took the movie away from the book, although I didn't mind it.

I would give the movie 4 stars if it wasn't for the fact that I read the book prior to watching it and felt that the story line was too tainted with.

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